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This
study's purpose is to gather pilot data for a larger proposal that will
be resubmitted to the National Institutes of Health on the relationships
between the HPA axis function and antisocial behavior in young women.
As part of the protocol, each participant will be asked to perform in-home
collection of salivary cortisol. Each girl and a parent will be interviewed
with a structured psychiatric interview (DISC) and a brief medical history
interview to determine eligibility to participate. Exclusion
criteria will be absence of a diagnosis of Conduct Disorder, the presence
of major medical illness, or a Tanner Stage of pubertal development less
than V. Girls selected to participate will be asked to contact the
office when they have their next menstrual cycle. When she calls, the girl
will be scheduled to get her supplies to collect 7 saliva samples over
the next 24 hours. Saliva samples will be analyzed for cortisol using
a commercial kit (Diagnostic Systems Lab).  (PDF
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